In 2016, Jones was head coach and GM of sskroughriders when he brought aboard running back and kick-returner Joe McKnight, who was fatally shot during a road-rage incident in his home state of Louisiana on Dec. 1 of that year.
In fact, it’s an all too familiar feeling for the head coach and general manager of the Edmonton Elks, as he finds himself travelling to Tennessee to attend the funeral of Christian Saulsberry this weekend.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“What a great guy. Christian was just a super personality and was full of positive energy and we’re just going to miss him,” Jones said. “His mom called me right when it happened,” Elks assistant GM Geroy Simon said of Saulsberry’s mother, Melissa Saulsberry-Smith, who negotiated her son’s Canadian Football League contract on his behalf. “So, it was tough getting that phone call saying that he was no longer with us. And then the way that he passed is just tragic. I feel for everybody, the entire organization and his family.
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